Had I done a simple web search, I would have found that there is a Reginald Gibbons teaching at Stanford, who is quite accomplished and well known. Ordinarily, I wouldn't be concerned about this. It isn't all that uncommon for two people to have the same name, after all.

I have, however, become worried that the real Reginald Gibbons may be suffering some inconvenience due to my recent article. It has come to my attention that there may be a small number of individuals who might have assumed that he and I were one and the same. They may even have gone to the extent of emailing him some of the gruesome threats that I received in response to my article, from people who, with the same breath, told me I was infringing on people's freedoms no less!

I would like to offer a sincere apology to the real Reginald Gibbons, and I hope that my thoughtless use of his name has not caused him to be subject to vicious email attacks from marauding nerds.

I would also like to announce that I am now changing my pseudonym to Robert Reginald Rodriguez. There is a Reginald Rodriguez at large on the internet, but I assume that those people who were unable to see the letter T at the beginnning of my pseudonym will not fail to notice the entire word "Robert".

(P.S. Thanks also, to adequacy and elby in particular for keeping the site running over the last few days.)